CESTA Digital Humanities Research Showcase 2022
Date
Fri May 27th 2022, 8:30am - 3:00pm
Location
CESTA (Wallenberg Hall, Bldg 160), Conference Room 433A.
Every year, CESTA's Digital Humanities Graduate Fellowship supports graduate students and post-docs to produce original research using the tools and methods of the digital humanities. Join us to see the 2021-22 cohort of scholars present their research!
Program
8:30–9:00 AM | Light Breakfast and Coffee |
9:00–9:15 AM | Introductory Remarks |
9:15–10:30 AM | Panel One: Our Digital Present: Tools, Big Data, and Algorithms |
Annie Lamar (Classics): "Reading, Fast and Slow: The Impact of Digital Reading Tools on Ancient Language Learning" | |
Iris Zhang (Sociology): "Municipal Annexations and the Changing Color Line" | |
Hank Gerba (Art History): "Between Publics and Populations: On Complexity Theory’s Algorithmic Logics" | |
10:30–10:45 AM | Coffee Break |
10:45–12:00 PM | Panel Two: New Data-Driven Perspectives on the Distant Past |
Dewei Shen (East Asian Studies): "How to Escape from Empire: A Possible Digital Humanities Solution" | |
Brandon Bark (Classics): "Networks of Transmission: Visualizing Latin Literary Fragments and the Later Sources who Preserved Them" | |
James Parkhouse (English) and Poojit Hegde: "Raiding the Wordhoard: Statistical Analysis of Recurring Alliterative Collocations in Old Norse Eddic Poetry" | |
12:00–1:15 PM | Lunch Break and Poster Session by CESTA Undergraduate Research Interns |
1:15–2:45 PM | Panel Three: Tracing Culture in Language, 1850 to Now |
Zuza Leniarska (English): "Return to Realism? Comparing 19th- and 21st-Century Novel Forms" | |
Carmen Thong (English) and Katherine Wang: "Encoding the Postcolonial in Place" | |
Valentina Ramia (Anthropology): "Fear in the Archive: A Digital Analysis of Ethnographic Concepts in Immigration Judges' Decisions" | |
Andrew Nelson (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Victor Cheruiyot and Sandi Khine: "Imperial Vocabulary: Public Political Discourse of the Japanese Diaspora, 1895-1935" | |
2:45–3:00 PM | Concluding Remarks |
3:00 PM onward | Happy hour at Treehouse, Tresidder Student Union |